Judicial danger

SIR - Claire Fox (opinion, Aug 17) is quite right to warn of the dangers of transferring power to the judiciary. At a time when Parliament is unwilling to defend its own supremacy and politicians are held in such low esteem - itself a neat illustration of cause and effect - it is not difficult to understand the call for freedom to be codified.

Placing judges in the situation in which the law is effectively made by the courts is, however, profoundly mistaken and an incipient threat to democracy. Only through their Parliament do the British people have any say in these matters and, as is well known, what Parliament does it can just as easily undo.

Putting these issues beyond the reach of Parliament may seem like a good idea at the time but it is one that we will surely come to regret.